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Home Front: Politix
Obama figured out
2011-11-19
James Taranto, "Best of the Web" @ WSJ

...Obama has multiple degrees from Ivy League colleges and spent a good deal of his career as a part-time professor. At Columbia, Harvard and the University of Chicago, he absorbed the politically correct nostrums of the academic left. But he didn't pick up much by way of critical thinking skills (although at least he doesn't scream at banks).

He didn't have to learn how to think, since he was thinking all the "right" thoughts anyway. So he came to office with lots of ideological preconceptions but no ability to adapt or innovate. As a result, he is simply in over his head intellectually--at the mercy of allies, opponents and events....
Posted by:Mike

#3  Nothing save PCorrectness-Deniabilty + Himself is stopping the Bammer from calling for a formal US, Global vote on extra-national/sovereign OWG that no American = Amerikan of the OWG Mighty USSA = OWG Weak USRA Global SSR has voted for, NOR BEEN ASKED TO.

Again, while its certainly possible for a person to correctly guess or discover, etc. third-party individual or group agenda(s), ITS STILL NOT THE SAME AS HEARING IT DIRECTLY FROM THE HORSE'S = HERD'S? MOUTH.

ITS CALLED LEADERSHIP + GUMPTION + TRUTH.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2011-11-19 21:09  

#2  I just started to read a 2011 book by David Freddoso entitled: Gangster Government: Barack Obama and the New Washington Thugocracy.

Newsweek's Evan Thomas says Obama's greater than any small idea like America. He compares him to another recent president--and to the Almighty.

Reagan was all about America...Obama is "We are above that now." We're not just parochial, we're not just chauvinistic, we're not just provincial. We stand for something--I mean in a way Obama's standing above the country, above--above the world, he's sort of God..."

The book should be interesting if one can get past their nausea. Maybe the love-in, kumbaya, and wet dream is over. Perhaps, they can come down to reality with the rest of us mere mortals.
Posted by: JohnQC   2011-11-19 20:04  

#1  As a result, he is simply in over his head intellectually--at the mercy of allies, opponents and events....

Ah, yes, victimhood. Thus the narrative begins.

"Ahh, but the strawberries that's... that's where I had them. They laughed at me and made jokes but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt and with... geometric logic... that a duplicate key to the wardroom icebox DID exist, and I'd have produced that key if they hadn't of pulled the Caine out of action. I, I, I know now they were only trying to protect some fellow officers... "
Posted by: Procopius2k   2011-11-19 07:26  

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